I think deleted scenes are my favorite special feature for movies. I don’t have time to go through the hours and hours of behind the scenes extras anymore. Getting to see a couple little extra moments from a movie you enjoy is a nice reward.

Ha! I prefer the outtakes, too. They just don’t include them on the right films.
They should be attached to campy horror movies (Jason pops through the door, trips, falls over, breaks his machete in half, and starts yelling four-letter words), brooding dramas (“Mother has cancer of the… umm… dammit. Cancer of the thingy. You know, that thing?”), Dark scifi cult classics (Donnie Darko and the guy-in-the-rabbit-suit-bumping-into-things-thirty-minute-blooper-montage!), good Star Trek movies (KHAAAAAAAAAA-hic-DAMMIT!), and bad Star Trek movies (Enjoying Star Trek V? Watch it through again after the show, but without the parts that were *deliberately* funny!), among others.

Mostly, a blooper reel should be for emotional release after a movie that kicks the emotional crap out of you.

Also…I don’t ever watch extras on a DVD. If it’s deleted and I’m watching it, chances are it’s a director’s cut or something. I find it pointless when they advertise movies to include the extras when I’m like “I just want the movie. The rest is just tacked on.”

I’ve often wanted to do that to a CD as well. Just take the songs you want off of a few different ones and patch them together! But then I frequently have an impulse to tear off a bit of a dollar bill for things that require change and I don’t currently have any, or I’m too lazy or scared to dig some out from the bottom of my purse…

Years ago I worked Tech Support for a unmentionable Big Blue company. Occasionally we would get asinine calls, which, to the amusement of all, would be placed on speakerphone for “additional support.”

One day, my boss receives a call, and with the ubiquitous, “Allow me to escalate your issue,” he puts the caller on speaker and flags us all over. Upon being asked to repeat his question, the caller asks us, “I rolled over my Windows CD in my desk chair and it broke in half. CAN I FIX IT WITH SCOTCH TAPE?”